Now my poor hometown is being castigated as the center of an IRS scandal. Humble workers at the Cincinnati office targeted Tea Party groups and other conservative organizations for special scrutiny when those groups applied for tax-exempt status. There's no conceivable excuse for that. It was deeply, deeply wrong.
The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.
I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.
No matter what position you're in, if you are receiving poor feedback from clients, co-workers, or in performance evaluations, then that's one of the clearest signs that you're not cut out for the job, or it's not right for you.
I think clever people think that poor people are stupid.
While Planned Parenthood provides abortions at some of their clinics, it also provides healthcare services for poor women, including checkups, mammograms, cervical cancer screenings and contraceptives.
The Clinton administration cared a lot about the middle class and the poor. But it also cared a lot - too much, in retrospect - about the rich.
If all Christians and Jews tithed their income as the Bible commands, every poor person would be cared for, every naked person clothed, and every hungry person fed.
Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.
The Hebrew Bible contains multiple provisions to ensure that no one would go hungry. The corners of the field, forgotten sheaves of grain, gleanings that drop from the hands of the gleaner, and small clusters of grapes left on the vine were to be given to the poor.
I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses.
My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.
What are the 10 major legacies that European colonization have left behind? Issues of illiteracy. Issues of ill health. Issues of poor infrastructure. Issues of backward agricultural economies. And it goes on.
We're not really a state. We're a colony. Everything we've ever had - timber, coal - it's all been extracted out of our state. Our people have been here and have worked in those industries, and they remained poor, but the people outside of our state that are the ones that come and get the timber, get the coal, have become billionaires.
The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor.
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
Saying the Tech Bloom is not commercially driven is like saying Mother Teresa had an interest in the poor.
My government is working for the common man. Our priority is the poor of the country. We want good governance through a dynamic and seamless government.
My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor.
Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.
